arachne-digest Saturday, January 8 2000 Volume 01 : Number 929
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 11:07:16 +0000
From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse slows down?
Hi all,
I've just installed arachne to demonstrate it at the college where I work.
Setting the preferences I found the mouse pointer reacted so slowly I could
hardly use the mouse at all. It seems to be related to longer pages
(personal preferences, which is a long scroll, was a problem, but in
pages with no scrolling at all the mouse worked perfectly). I tried
different settings for visual screens and memory but to no effect.
Any idea where it can come from and what I can do about it? The computer
is a fast laptop and I run arachne from win 95, offline (for now).
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 06:26:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Klaus Hameyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Load EPPPD on COMPAQ 590
Hello Michael Dawley:
Thank you for taking the time to send me all your config
and batch files to make ARACHNE run on your COMPAQ 575.
I used them as the basis for making some of my own and
am able to run both BOBCAT and ARACHNE via the
NETDIAL nad EPPPD combination on my "standard non-name"
machine.
However, the COMPAQ still balks. I split the batch files
into pieces and it is definitely the packet driver that
is holding up the show on the COMPAQ. I doubt whether
the problem is in memory since I am running DR-DOS 7 and
MEM shows 618 bytes free.
Well, back to fiddling with wild shots in the dark. But
thank you for your effort -- and the others on the list
who tried to help too.
- - Klaus
| Klaus Hameyer, TRANSLATOR, German/Swedish => English
| Chemistry, Chem. Technol, Environment, Waste, Paper etc.
| Tel:802-563-2549 or 864-7648 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:21:10 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Re: A way to let DOS apps to access Winmodems and USB modem
Hi
Rick Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RO> AFAIK the "only" way to get a "pure" DOS prompt on a WINcrap machine
RO> is the "DOS boot disk".
No, BootGUI=0 gives you plain DOS 7 without any Windows stuff.
RO> Later,
RO> rick
CU, Ricsi
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Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
- -=> God heals, but always someone else wants a fee <=-
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:16:49 +0100
From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse slows down?
From: "Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just installed arachne to demonstrate it at the college where I work.
> Setting the preferences I found the mouse pointer reacted so slowly I
could
> hardly use the mouse at all. It seems to be related to longer pages
> (personal preferences, which is a long scroll, was a problem, but in
> pages with no scrolling at all the mouse worked perfectly). I tried
> different settings for visual screens and memory but to no effect.
>
> Any idea where it can come from and what I can do about it? The computer
> is a fast laptop and I run arachne from win 95, offline (for now).
This happens under win 9x, so you have use Arachne only in pure dos.
(in pure dos don't forget to load smartdrv)
Rebel
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 07:52:07 -0800
From: "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne 1.60 cometh :)
Hi Michael,
Excellent News ! :)
<<<Michael Polak: it seems, that Arachne 1.60
is comming *really* soon.>>
Do you know what the free conventional RAM requirement will
be with 1.6x?
<<Michael Polak, xChaos software>>
Hmmm, no Arachne Labs? ;)
Bob Buckland ?:-)
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 18:47:02 +0100
From: "Gerald Kucera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: monitor
Hello, I need help, please.
I bought an old IBM monitor with a screensize of 17" Typenumber 9517. It
works nicely on my also old computer which came with Win98SE. It contains
a driver for this monitor. But it can not show Dos which precedes
Windows during startup and the sadest Arachne is nearly unusable. The
image flickers heavily, is too big and distorted.
I tried all possibilities of the graphics setup. Only Vesa gives an
image at all. Vitezslav said I could try some Univesa driver from
Scitech. I found a SciTechDisplayDoctor SDD53a at Vobis and SDD651 at
AOL. The SDD651 is comfortable to use and gives a very good image of
Arachne and improves the image of Windows (and AOL).
But, and that's it: Arachne can not establish a PPP link any more.
Miniterm dials perfectly, connects with my provider then the screen
shows: "leaving miniterm trying SLIP/PPP" and after a while "no PPP
link".
I posted this question to Quick chat and Gregory Feig told me to clear
out the DisplayDoctor....Arachne works like before.
Technical info.: Video card: miro V22SD-PCI, chip S3 trio 64V+, 2MB
Monitor: IBM homepage-->support-->pc-->search in support-->enter 9517
don't look for monitors.
On the monitor are only a mains switch and two knobs for brightness and
contrast. It has preferred refresh rates of 72, 75 and 88Hz. You can
shift them a bit but 6oHz does not work and I did not dare to go over
90Hz more than a short time. If I remember correctly I got a good Arachne
image with DisplayDoctor at 16Bit colour, 640x480, refreshrate 75,2Hz,
horizontal and vertical syncronisation at "-". This may also be the Win
image and Arachne at 16Bit colour, 800x600, refreshrate 72Hz and both
sync at "-" too.
One thing I remember vaguely the DisplayDoctor does something with 4MB
of memory. I can not check any more because I cleared it out.
What I really need is a way to make Arachne visible on this monitor and
I would like to see DOS too. Win uses only part of the screen but that
is good enough.
I appreciate any help, but please be a bit more detailed since I am a
beginner with computers.
Looking forward
Gerald
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 13:04:22 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load EPPPD high
Michael L. Dawley wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> Here are three sets of mem.txt on this Compudyne computer:
Sorry Michael;
That info was mostly unreadable due to lack of formatting.
- - Clarence Verge
- --
- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:58:05 +0000
From: "Joerg Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne on TV and arcademachine
Hi, all !
I use Arachne on my TV-screen (but also on my arcademachine :) )
just because it�s functional and funny. Like you know it is very easy to
interface vga or svga videosignals (without electronics ! ) to a TV or
aracdemachine with high RGB quality, it's mostly like plug in your
pc-monitor, because of some smart DOS- ! software like VGATV or ArcadeOS.
So there is no need for expensive hardware like a internetTV-box,
scannconverter or VoodooXXL with bad TV-out, 4 GB and $$$ videocard.
Thanks to Arachne, a 486-pc and old vgacard out of the dustbin will
do the job.
My question: There are other maniacs out there uesing Arachne like me ?
What�s your experience ? What should be done to optimize Arachne for
slowscann, lowresolution monitors ?
Thanks for reading
Joerg Bartels
- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:47:21 +0000
From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #928
> One problem I have with using Netdial to establish a connection
> and install a packet driver ahead of booting up Arachne is this:
> If I hangup with ALT-H, then I have to start all over again.<g>.
> With the regular Arachne setup, (no netdial), I can just ALT-D
> and get back on, leaving Arachne up and running while I was
> disconnected.
> I doubt there is an easy solution...
How about changing Arachne's configuration to work with netdial?
When you ask Arachne to connect, Arachne just executes a
corresponding DOS command. That it calls EPPPD.EXE by default
is coincidental. I seem to remember there's even something
in the help files about changing this.
> ...and to be honest, I am happy
> with the Netdial-Arachne combo like it is.
In the UK there's a charge for connection time, so it's unacceptable
to have to quit your application just to disconnect and reconnect. I
usually connect once to get my mail, then disconnect to read it and
reply, and start again when I want to send it.
Regards, Charles
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 17:19:51 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine
Joerg Bartels wrote:
>
> Hi, all !
>
> My question: There are other maniacs out there uesing Arachne like me ?
> What�s your experience ? What should be done to optimize Arachne for
> slowscann, lowresolution monitors ?
Hi Joerg;
Yeah there are other maniacs out here.
But I have fixations on Hercules Graphics and monochrome. <G>
- - Clarence Verge
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- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:37:26 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stephen Baxter)
Subject: URLs of Useful Utilities Sought
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
URLs of Useful Utilities Sought
Many thanks to Michael G and Gregy for their persistent indefatigable
pursuit of solutions here in the Digest that has been so educational for
non-gurus like me. Many thanks too to the responding Arachnid gurus who
have never lost patience in areas that many would consider arcane. They
have set a new standard in addressing these problems and all the others
throughout the year that makes this list, as has been already
acknowledged, the best on the Net. All this bodes remarkably well for
Arachne in this last year of the 20th century that will undoubtedly mark
the milestone launching of the only effective and stable DOS/Linux-based
WEB browser in the world. May the books be reopened next December to
salute this as the other Michael's significant contribution to the dying
millennium!
About those URLs for useful utilities:
- - My PS/2 with DOS 6.2 reverted to April 1980 on Jan 1, but accepted
and retained the new year when entered under DATE at the DOS prompt.
My Win3.1 File Manager dates new year entries as "1/7/:0" instead of
the expected "1/7/00" What is the URL from which I can download the
fixing patch?
- - I was astonished to find that my Lotus Organizer Release 1.1 gave me
yet another year, but 2000 will be the last. Is there an upgrade
available from the WEB that will work with Win3.1 to extend use into
the next millennium?
- - A good backup discipline is my main protection from viruses, but that
"CMOS Boot Sector Write Alarm" seems a good tool to install. From
where? Otherwise I have used McAfee ever since infected with Monkey
several years ago, but the more recent issues seem beyond
installation for me. Besides that, a TSR Sentry seems to slow me
down too much. How susceptible are Arachnids anyway to infection?
- - Finally, a silly one. Years of correspondence files using my own
naming convention [eg "91231a}.arc"] to keep them in chronological
order whether incoming[{] or outgoing[}] has been thrown for a loop.
I have adopted "o" for the year for now, but there has to be a better
way!?
The new thread on System Optimization seems promising. I hope the
results will be summarized in Teilnehmer's outstanding Arachne Help Page
in due course, together with all the other recent discoveries.
Yours, Aye for the New Year
Stephen.
o0107}.arc
- --
__ __ __
/__) ( ' /__) Stephen
/ (__) /__) Baxter af236
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:41:51
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A way to let DOS apps to access Winmodems and USB modem
On 5 Jan 00 at 18:41, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>Another thing I don't understand:
>>
>>Why do most consumers want to buy machines with WinModems? So, maybe they
>>save about $40.00 in buying a machine with an inferior modem, but they lose
>>out on the advantages of having an otherwise superior machine when the
>>computer's system resources are bogged down by the WinModem.
>>
>>And here is something else I don't understand:
>>
>>Why do most Windozing consumers think that it is best to buy a modem that is
>>advertised as "designed especially for Windows 95"? Don't most people know
>>that the best modems are those that are *not* designed especially for their
>>particular operating system? Anyone who knows what he is doing doesn't need
>>to "plug and pray".
I have been thinking about this a little, and the idea of using the
CPU reduce hardware costs is not new at all. Those on the list who
have or had a Commodore 64 may remember that there was not a UART
chip to handle communications with a modem connected on the User
Port. This chore was handled by the CPU via the OS. The native code
of the Commodore OS was even limited to 1200 baud and it was only by
rewriting this code withing a comm program that C= users were able to
advance to 2400 baud communications. I just goes to show that no bad
idea every dies. :)
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client
WWWWW World Wide Web Without Windows
http://home.arachne.cz Arachne DOS Browser Home Page
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:21:34 -0400
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:58:05 +0000, Joerg Bartels wrote:
> Hi, all !
> I use Arachne on my TV-screen (but also on my arcademachine :) )
> just because it�s functional and funny. Like you know it is very easy to
> interface vga or svga videosignals (without electronics ! ) to a TV or
> aracdemachine with high RGB quality, it's mostly like plug in your
> pc-monitor, because of some smart DOS- ! software like VGATV or ArcadeOS.
<snip>
Very interesting, Jerry. Where do you get this software, and how much
does it cost?
Sam Heywood
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Alternative WWW Browser
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:55:27 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.60 cometh :)
On 7 Jan 00, at 7:52, Bob Buckland ?:-) wrote:
"Do you know what the free conventional RAM requirement will
be with 1.6x?"
Also need a comparison between 1.5 and 1.6 as to the above.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
Compaq Deskpro 575 - Pegasus Mail for Windows
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:03:42 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse slows down?
On 7 Jan 00, at 13:16, Rebel wrote:
This happens under win 9x, so you have use Arachne only in pure dos.
(in pure dos don't forget to load smartdrv)
Rebel,
About smartdrv. Give me what you have on what Arachne
needs/gets with smartdrv. On this computer I'm using now,
I have in my autoexec.bat:
LH /L:0;1,45504 /S C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE
WIN
As you can see it's the next to last item in autoexec.bat.
It gets loaded high, so it stays out of arachne's conventional
memory area<g>.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
Compaq Deskpro 575 - Pegasus Mail for Windows
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:13:07 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A way to let DOS apps to access Winmodems and USB modem
Dale Mentzer wrote:
>
> I have been thinking about this a little, and the idea of using the
> CPU reduce hardware costs is not new at all. Those on the list who
> have or had a Commodore 64 may remember that there was not a UART
> chip to handle communications with a modem connected on the User
> Port. This chore was handled by the CPU via the OS. The native code
> of the Commodore OS was even limited to 1200 baud and it was only by
> rewriting this code withing a comm program that C= users were able to
> advance to 2400 baud communications. I just goes to show that no bad
> idea every dies. :)
Hi Dale;
It really isn't that bad an idea if the processor has nothing much else to do.
I recently finished a little controller containing a real-time clock in code
wherein the time gets set via a com port on a PC.
The serial loop runs at 19.2kbaud and is implemented in code to keep the cost
down. Since, in this case the micro has nothing else to do except keep time,
and in the case of the Commodore it has nothing else to do except keep up with
your typing, these are not, IMHO, bad uses of processor power.
Of course, these usages were written in assembly language. To drain away 80%
of the power of a 75Mhz pentium to simulate a modem with software written in
"C" while trying to run Windows and a webbrowser, also likely written in "C"
IS a bad idea. (IMHO)
- - Clarence Verge
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- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:23:05 -0400
From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NewDeal [ was Re: Re-using old systems]
I took a look, and must heartily disagree that they complement Arachne.
They would probably, if they could, stop Arachne in its tracks. They
sell their own internet "suite" complete with browser, etc ... or so
they say. Despite their talk of being an alternative to "bloated
software" they seem to produce their own brand ... things that must run
together and won't run seperately.
I found their demo, which supposedly includes their web browser. They
do have something disquised as a Comm program but I couldn't find how to
use it, how to write scripts for dialer [that was one option], or how to
set up the module to use it to access ISP & web.
There doesn't appear to be anything new in all the files that came down
with the demo. These folks bought out GeoWorks apparently, and the
internal copyright dates are 1991 despite the fact there are some files
that are externally dated 97 & 98.
And it is bloatware. The demo installation package is more than 5Mb and
installed it takes ~10Mb. It tries to immitate windows as much as
possible, including where you click on screen to do things, how you
move, many of the commands, etc. It is very GUI filled.
Just out of curiosity I'd like to run it, but I'm not about to attempt
to figure out how to setup the Comm section, and they don't even have
the right drivers for my printer -- although I was able to "make do"
with a "near model" for b&w printing. So if anyone has enough spare
time to actually get the demo comm programs up and running, lemme know
how. I did notice that they apparently have tcpip, slip, ppp & lan
socket stuff ... but found no way to integrate it into use within comm
program window.
l.d.
====
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 12:01:52 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton
wrote:
> Take a look at the work done by http://www.newdealinc.com
> about re-using old computers. These folks make software
> for older systems. And since internet connectivity is
> their weak point, they complement Arachne very well.
> Charles
- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:47:25 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Load EPPPD on COMPAQ 590
On 7 Jan 00, at 6:26, Klaus Hameyer wrote:
However, the COMPAQ still balks. I split the batch files
into pieces and it is definitely the packet driver that
is holding up the show on the COMPAQ. I doubt whether
the problem is in memory since I am running DR-DOS 7 and
MEM shows 618 bytes free.
- ----------------------------------------------------------
Klaus,
When I first got this combination to work, I found that my
login script, netdial.scr was somehow stopping the
packet driver, so I removed the last two lines of the
original and it worked. You have my working netdial.scr
file. Also, have you been able to load
epppd high? Mine is often 70K, and needs to go high
if possible to get it out of arachne's conventional memory
area. One way to get a memory report within Arachne
is Desktop-Tools-Memory. I do this now on
arachne installations where I cannot connect. Your
problem may not be in total memory available, but
in conflicts between items getting placed in various
locations in memory. I have a graphics
card for my Compaq, so I could get 16.7 m colors,
and I found that dmouse.com or fmouse.com would
conflict to the point that when Arachne tried to boot
up after the packet driver loaded, etc. my screen
would go blank. I had to just turn the machine off,
and go back to my 25K logitech mouse driver on this
one. On my Compudyne, with a Tsang graphics card,
I can use dmouse.com just fine, and save some
memory. Also, I have heard that some programs
expand a little when running:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
"Some device drivers load in at one size but expand
to grab more memory when they begin to run"
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
This relates to the DEVICEHIGH SIZE command,
like this: devicehigh size=39E0 mouse.sys
according to my dos 5 book. I have not had to
use this myself and have no experience with it.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
Another item to try is to REM out various lines in
autoexec.bat on a trial basis to see if one of them
is conflicting somehow. I found share.exe to be one
that was suspect. There may be others, drivers, etc.
that could be conflicting. If you find one that's it,
you may have to specify a memory area for it,
This is a little hard to control, so I just REM out
items until Arachne connects. or try
and do without the item. Check also in config.sys.
- -----------------------------------------------------------
All of this is just thoughts to give you the benefit
of my latest work on it. Hopefully others will
contribute also, especially if and when you narrow
the problem down.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
Compaq Deskpro 575 - Pegasus Mail for Windows
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 19:57:55 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load EPPPD high
>Also, I need to know how to load SMARTDRV high. As you can
>see, I have 159K of upper memory, so there should be plenty to
>load both epppd and smartdrv high.
Bernie said,
That's weird, Smartdrv loads high automagically for me. I think
there's a
switch to prevent it, you should make sure that it's not there. (see
"help
smartdrv" and/or "smartdrv/?")
Bernie,
I figured out how to get my smartdrv loaded high. Strangely,
I had more than one line to run smartdrv in my config.sys
and autoexec.bat, and the computer used the first one it
came to. I'll check help smartdrv and see about the switch.
I have to use lh now to get it done.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
Compaq Deskpro 575 - Pegasus Mail for Windows
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:01:34 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URLs of Useful Utilities Sought
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:37:26 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stephen
Baxter) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URLs of Useful Utilities Sought
> Many thanks to Michael G and Gregy for their persistent indefatigable
> pursuit of solutions here in the Digest that has been so educational for
> non-gurus like me. Many thanks too to the responding Arachnid gurus who
> have never lost patience in areas that many would consider arcane. They
Steven......I thing so too.....all Michael Dawley and I have done is
ask questions....and ask questions...and.....
The real grunt work has been done by the likes of Sam/Glenn/Bernie/
et all....
> have set a new standard in addressing these problems and all the others
> throughout the year that makes this list, as has been already
> acknowledged, the best on the Net. All this bodes remarkably well for
> Arachne in this last year of the 20th century that will undoubtedly mark
> the milestone launching of the only effective and stable DOS/Linux-based
> WEB browser in the world. May the books be reopened next December to
> salute this as the other Michael's significant contribution to the dying
> millennium!
> About those URLs for useful utilities:
> - My PS/2 with DOS 6.2 reverted to April 1980 on Jan 1, but accepted
> and retained the new year when entered under DATE at the DOS prompt.
> My Win3.1 File Manager dates new year entries as "1/7/:0" instead of
> the expected "1/7/00" What is the URL from which I can download the
> fixing patch?
Steven...this will be the service ftp site for IBM...I disremember
their URL, but it is on their www.ibm.com homepage...they have a
whole series of ftp servers up in Boulder, Colorado...
> - I was astonished to find that my Lotus Organizer Release 1.1 gave me
> yet another year, but 2000 will be the last. Is there an upgrade
> available from the WEB that will work with Win3.1 to extend use into
> the next millennium?
...same place as the above....however, what fix, I don't know...if
seems someone mentioned this problem on this list recently, so you
might check the last two digests...
> - A good backup discipline is my main protection from viruses, but that
> "CMOS Boot Sector Write Alarm" seems a good tool to install. From
> where? Otherwise I have used McAfee ever since infected with Monkey
..this is a tough on.....since I believe you do NOT have a CMOS
BIOS that has it in there.....IBM chooses to "do their own thing"
and some of their boxes do not have a standard AMI/AWARD/PHOENIX
CMOS BIOS in them....most "clones" have one of these BIOS's in
them, and you access this at bootup....if the PCCompany BBS
was still up, I'd go on therre and have an answer for you overnight,
but it will take a couple of days to get back with you.....however,
one of the "sharpies" on this list probably has the answer on the
tip of his tongue, right now...<g> <g> <g.
> several years ago, but the more recent issues seem beyond
> installation for me. Besides that, a TSR Sentry seems to slow me
> down too much. How susceptible are Arachnids anyway to infection?
...someone recently answered my own question about this...you can
check the recent digests for more detail....but, it boils down to
- ----arachne is a DOS program....it doesn't sneak around in the
background running things it has just downloaded from the net
without waiting for you to tell it to....so...if you tell it to
do something stupid...it will...otherwise your probably safe...
I have quit worrying about it....I just run my virus check on the
stuff I get off the web, offline, out-of-arachne, before I run it.
(and I do have that CMOS Bios Alarm set, too.
> - Finally, a silly one. Years of correspondence files using my own
> naming convention [eg "91231a}.arc"] to keep them in chronological
> order whether incoming[{] or outgoing[}] has been thrown for a loop.
> I have adopted "o" for the year for now, but there has to be a better
> way!?
...what is wrong with "01231a.arc", anyway...? it is your system..
you are happy with it....why change now.....you're not coming down
with an acute case of "post-y2k panic"...are you...? <g g g>
> The new thread on System Optimization seems promising. I hope the
> results will be summarized in Teilnehmer's outstanding Arachne Help Page
> in due course, together with all the other recent discoveries.
gregy
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the
Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:08:48 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:21:34 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:58:05 +0000, Joerg Bartels wrote:
>> Hi, all !
>> I use Arachne on my TV-screen (but also on my arcademachine :) )
>> just because it�s functional and funny. Like you know it is very easy to
>> interface vga or svga videosignals (without electronics ! ) to a TV or
>> aracdemachine with high RGB quality, it's mostly like plug in your
>> pc-monitor, because of some smart DOS- ! software like VGATV or ArcadeOS.
> <snip>
> Very interesting, Jerry. Where do you get this software, and how much
> does it cost?
Sam.....you will, of course, exercise the usual caution about not
trying to switch your video card into some "burnup" configuration
(not too likely)....and will be sure to reset everything when you
switch back to your monitor (because the video card may not burn
up, but you in cripplingly injure your monitor) This stuff writes
to the video card bare-metal registers to do its magic, and it is
quite (no, VERY..) effective....I used to play games using it...
long years ago.....
gregy
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Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 20:27:44 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load EPPPD high
On 7 Jan 00, at 13:04, Clarence Verge wrote:
> That info was mostly unreadable due to lack of formatting.
Clarence,
I find that Pegasus does not format the mem.txt files, but I believe
I looked at one of my posts a few days ago with Arachne, and
arachne had formatted the files! I got overzealous sending such
volumes of files, etc. out, and I realize now that the post would have
been a handful even if formatted correctly. Having said that, how
does one send a file as an attachment using Arachne Insight?
Not that I intend to overuse the information<g>.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
Compaq Deskpro 575 - Pegasus Mail for Windows
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 03:53:56 +0100 (CET)
From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: one more delay.....
1.60 is actualy almost ready (the CORE.EXE), but I am afraid of making it
available without full distribution package.
Really lot of things changed, which means that old .ah, .htm and .dgi in
package often look very ugly in new Arachne (these files are usually
highly optimized for Arachne, they use <BODY NORESIZE>, etc.)
So I want to finalize package first; and I also want to finish
cut/copy/paste - it is more or less working now, but it won't be
very effective to release it half finished.
So please wait few more days... I appreciate, that you stopped
mail-boming me with various private questions (mostly) - it really helped.
As new HTML layout engine seems to be stable and pretty usable, I should
have more time for various fine tuning and features from wish-list, and
once 1.60 package is compiled, it should be much easier to release 1.61,
1.62 etc. with small updates, like I did around cca 1.2x and 1.4x ...
I will also probably first put Arachne 1.60 on current home.arachne.cz and
announce it only in this mailing list, while I will be preparing
new http://browser.arachne.cz/ download page for announce in
arachne-announce list....
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 06:39:06 +0200
From: Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine
I've been trying to figure out an (inexpencive) way to connect
my computer to the TV screen for years! Can you please describe
how did you do it? (Besides, I always wanted to turn the 486 I have
into a "multi-functional DOS based WebTV" using Arachne and abunch
of utilities.. (I think that I can get an infra-red keyboard +
touchpad for it for rather cheap.).
The television sets in my country are using the PAL system.
Or Botton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:56:18 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dos memory (KB)
Hello all,
I have 148 KB Dos Memory when I start Arachne. I find that
this goes down a bit as I visit web pages, etc., but if I
stop and check my email, it returns to 148. Before I got
my system optimized a bit to the 148 level, I was making
do with about 80 KB to start, and often that would drop
below 50 and into the red. Some web pages visited would
require more, apparently, and as I recall, Arachne would
crash. Now, with 148, I have a much more stable Arachne,
and can surf without much problem for as long as I want.
On this subject, I'm sure some of you have more than
the 148, and I would like to hear how to do that. One
item that comes to mind is using an older version of
DOS. I have 6.22.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
- --Arachne 1.50 using Netdial for Dos 1.3--
- --Compaq Deskpro 575--
- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
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